Stapelia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 1011 
with a purple-brown spot at or rather above the middle and dots 
on the apical part, no spot at the base; outer corona-lobes with 
subequal horns, the outer ascending. 
This is similar to S. atrata, Tod.] 
[82. 8. micrantha (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi.38) ; corolla about 
24 in. in diam. ; lobes somewhat attenuate-deltoid-ovate, acuminate, 
pale greenish-yellow, irregularly margined and marked with purple- 
brown spots more or less confluent, in a few longitudinal or trans- 
verse groups ; annulus circular, light yellow, densely covered with 
purple-brown confluent spots in the cup and very few on the rim, so 
that it appears to have an interrupted ,yellow ring around it ; outer 
corona-lobes oblong-linear, minutely notched at the apex, pale 
yellow, dotted at the apex and a few dots at the base; inner 
corona-lobes with both horns dotted to the base and the outer horn 
suberect. 
This scarcely differs from S. mirabilis, Dammann, except in the colouring of the 
annulus and corona, | 
(83. S. mirabilis (Dammann ex Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 38) ; 
corolla 2-21 in. in diam.; lobes somewhat attenuate-deltoid or 
deltoid-ovate, acuminate, pale yellow, with purple-brown margins 
and rather few large irregular spots, those on the disk around the 
annulus confluent, the others interspersed with slender purple- 
brown lines; annulus circular, paler, thickly covered with small 
light purple-brown spots; outer corona-lobes oblong, shallowly 
emarginate or notched at the apex, pale yellow, without markings 
except some minute dots on the very small teeth ; inner corona also 
only dotted at the tips of the horns, of which the outer are 
suberect. | 
84. §. multiflora (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 39, not of 
DC.) ; this is a hybrid form of S. variegata and totally different 
from S. multiflora, DC.; corolla 24 in. in diam. ; lobes deltoid-ovate, 
acuminate, minutely ciliate, pale yellow, edged and variegated with 
irregular dark purple-brown markings and a blotch near the tips of 
a lighter purple-brown, entirely dark purple-brown on the disk 
around the annulus, which is circular, of a paler yellow than the 
lobes, with purple-brown spots all round the margin and in the 
cup, leaving a circle of yellow almost unspotted between; outer 
corona-lobes linear-oblong, shortly bifid, with a minute tooth in the 
notch, pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown down the centre and 
on the teeth; inner corona-lobes with the outer horn ascending- 
spreading. 
The flowers are represented as being subsolitary and a ntly not more 
abundantly produced than in other sete and ipbeide: of 8. Recs ieer f 
(85. 8. munbyana (Riist in Monatsschr. Kakt. vi. 40); a hybrid : 
"very similar to the lighter coloured forms of S. variegata, var. i. 
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